Editing Las Vegas, New Mexico (section)

==Libraries and museums==
[[Image:ATSF engine no. 1129.jpg|thumb|right|[[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|AT&SF]] engine #1129 on the corner of Grand & Mills]]
[[New Mexico Highlands University]], founded 1893, is home to the Thomas C. Donnelly Library. It supports the teaching, research and community activities of New Mexico Highlands University. It acquires, organizes, preserves and provides access to pertinent information and scholarly materials for curricular needs, intellectual pursuits and personal enrichment of its clientele. It promotes programs and services that emphasize the diversity of the university's multicultural community and heritage. An addition increased the square footage from 23,700 to 53,500 and now holds a book collection of almost 200,000 volumes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lasvegasnm.org/community/library.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401211151/http://lasvegasnm.org/community/library.htm|url-status=dead|title=Libraries & Museums|archivedate=April 1, 2008}}</ref>

Las Vegas' Carnegie Library, established in 1904, is the only surviving Carnegie Library in New Mexico. Built from a $10,000 donation from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, its Neo-Classical Revival architecture resembles Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. The library sits in the middle of a park that occupies an entire city block, bordered by Victorian-style homes and buildings.

The City of Las Vegas Museum & Rough Rider Memorial on Grand Avenue, dedicated in 1940, was first established by the decision of Theodore Roosevelt's [[Rough Riders]] regiment (the first Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the Spanish–American War), who named Las Vegas its official reunion home. Their first reunion was held in Las Vegas, June 1899.

The museum, free and open to the public, houses a memorial collection of artifacts, archives and photographs from the Rough Riders and mementos in relation to the 1898 Cuban Campaign of the Spanish–American War, with information on over 200 members of the original regiment, RRR Association documents, etc. The museum illuminates the history of Las Vegas, its connection to the Rough Riders, the Santa Fe Trail and the development of New Mexico. It features collections of local Native American pottery, household items, costumes, ranching and farming equipment, agricultural and mercantile operations, and home life.

Housed in a 1940 [[Works Progress Administration]]-funded building, the museum is built of stone, with Pueblo Revival nuances.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasmuseum.org |title=City of Las Vegas Museum & Rough Rider Memorial Collection |publisher=Lasvegasmuseum.org |access-date=2010-07-28}}</ref>

===Architecture===
[[Image:Castaneda Hotel, Las Vegas NM.jpg|thumb|right|Historic [[Castañeda Hotel|Castañeda]] railway hotel]]
Las Vegas has numerous historic structures (mostly railroad-era houses and commercial buildings), with over 900 listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. Although many buildings are in varying states of deterioration, others have been restored or are awaiting restoration. Some of the city's notable buildings include:

* '''Dr. H.J. Mueller House''', now a Bed and Breakfast called Crow's Nest Bed and Breakfast. An 1881 example of Victorian eclecticism with unusual octagonal tower
* '''[[Plaza Hotel (Las Vegas, New Mexico)|Plaza Hotel]]''', 1881, site of the first reunion of [[Teddy Roosevelt]]'s [[Rough Riders]] in 1899
* '''Old City Hall''', New Mexico's first municipal building, completed in 1892
* '''Louis Fort House''', [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]] house on Carnegie Park, built in 1895
* '''Masonic Temple''', [[Richardsonian Romanesque]] building erected in 1895
* '''[[Castañeda Hotel]]''', mission-style Harvey House built in 1898
* '''Carnegie Library''', built in 1903 at the center of Carnegie Park and modeled after [[Monticello]]